Security guards shoot fleeing robber

2012-09-04 20:39

Johannesburg - A man was shot and wounded on Tuesday while fleeing from security guards after a housebreaking in Alberton, south of Johannesburg, Gauteng police said.

The guards were responding to an alarm in Dreyer Street, South Crest, when they spotted a man forcing his way out of a house by breaking the kitchen window, Captain Pinky Tsinyane said. "He was carrying a bag with him when he tried to escape."

The guards shot him after he ignored their order to stop running. A portable radio and jewellery box containing bracelets, necklaces, and earrings, worth about R5 000, were found in his possession.

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